ROME. Private parties reduced to a few participants, baptisms and weddings with limited numbers, constant checks in the nightlife areas, with possible early closures of the premises. New restrictions on the government study, in addition to the requirement for outdoor masks, could be added to the draft of the new decree that will be passed on Wednesday. With daily infections at 2,578 cases, the Executive is “at work to avoid a new lockdown that we must not afford”, explains the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, who closes the possibility of increasing the maximum threshold of one thousand fans at the stadium for Serie A matches and, faced with the multiplication of infections among the benches, he assures: “We want to keep schools open despite the fact that there will be further infections”.
But mini-lockdowns are already in place in some cities of the country. The ASL intervenes against the increase in cases in the territory in the Municipality of Latina, asking to leave their homes “only in case of necessity and to avoid unnecessary exits, until there is a clear picture”. In Italy there is a slight decline in new cases, 2,578 in the last 24 hours compared to 2,844 the previous day, but the number of swabs performed is also lower: 92,714, about 26 thousand fewer. The number of victims is also decreasing: 18 in one day, for a total of 35,986 (yesterday there were 27). Most of the new patients are still in Campania (+412), where among the victims there is also the Bishop of Caserta Giovanni D’Alise, hospitalized since September 30 in the city hospital and died of pulmonary complications: he is the first prelate died of Covid. And the government, which writes the draft of the decree without taking its eyes off the bulletin numbers, will present the new Dpcm tomorrow in the Council of Ministers.
Then the passage of Minister Speranza in Parliament and on Wednesday the signature of Prime Minister Conte, who warns from Assisi: “The enemy has not yet been defeated, we are aware that we cannot disperse the sacrifices made”. A warning that confirms the intentions of the experts, in these hours, of a further shrinkage of the shirts. The Scientific Technical Committee indicates its line: quota limitation of presences at private parties and on the occasion of events and ceremonies.
According to the scientists, in order to stave off a significant increase in contagion and the need for a general lockdown, a progressive restriction of measures in the autumn season will be necessary: starting with a squeeze on nightlife at the early closing times of the premises up to a significant increase in controls, in addition to the obligation to wear a mask outdoors. This last measure, already in place with ordinances in Campania, Lazio and other regions, “is one of the hypotheses that we are evaluating”. The government will make its choices only after the parliamentary passage – explains Speranza, for whom “we are now in a phase of significant growth of the contagion.” a little less football and a little more school, if possible. “But he also guarantees that there will be no stop in Serie A, because” the CTS has in complete safety laid down rules that allow the championship to go forward. “
Fears also for the opportunities of contagion due to transport and at the moment new interventions in the future cannot be completely excluded. In Rome and in all the other Italian metropolitan cities “they should be doubled”, according to the medical director of the Spallanzani Institute, Francesco Vaia: “We have done a lot in ports and airports and we have become a European and international reference, but metropolitan transport they are an element of great concern ».
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